A case is yet to be started over the killings of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (MN Larma) leader Shaktiman Chakma and five others in Rangamati.
Nobody from the victims’ families has filed a case over the two incidents of killings on Thursday and Friday.
“A decision on starting cases may come after the funerals,” Superintendent of Police Alamgir Kabir told the media on Saturday.
“The bodies have been handed over to the families, who will decide on starting cases after the funerals. But the processes are on,” he said.
Security has been ratcheted up in and around Rangamati’s Naniarchar Upazila after six murders in two days.
On Thursday, Upazila Chairman Shaktiman Chakma was shot dead while five of his mourners were gunned down when they were ambushed on the way to his funeral.
Shaktiman Chakma, 55, was a vice-president of the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samiti (MN Larma-faction).
Five people, including United People’s Democratic Front (Ganatantrik) leader Tapan Jyoti Chakma, were killed on Friday.
At least eight others were injured in the attack. Four of them are being treated at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital in critical conditions.
The Jana Sanghati Samiti (MN Larma) and United People’s Democratic Front (Ganatantrik) has claimed that the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was responsible for the killings.
The UPDF, however, denies of involvement.